root and capabilities list

ds 1000hz.radiowave at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 18:31:03 UTC 2014


On 14.10.2014 22:23, Martin Pitt wrote:
> You also need root to initially get those CAP_*, so this is not a real 
> limitation. 
Yes it is. the capability is set on exe file by the installer. The exe 
itself should never acquire root ideally. Only has the limited subset of 
root powers CAP_SYS_RAWIO and CAP_SYS_MODULE








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